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Nice footage. I’m wondering what I’m seeing at the very end in the slow-motion shots — it appears there is a little “outline” around the divers when they are moving over the trees so slowly. Is that intentional or an artifact of some sort? I don’t hate it, it is actually intriguing to me for some reason. Just curious how it got in there. Thanks!

phil…have you tried to key off/ roto the divers before putting them through twixter. Should be able to get a reasonable difference key with the staionary background. you get much better slow mo by doing this…i can have a go for you if you wish! I am a Flame artist, funny cos i reckon i live near to where you must be seeing as you seem to shoot in richmond alot!

To get the difference matte make a clean plate in a precomp of just the background by masking in clean sections from the timeline over the diver. So yuo will end up with a plate of just the trees. Then you can use this with the after effects “Difference
Matte” in keyeing menu, with the original footage. You may need to garbage mask/ colour correct out extraneous areas of the matte. If you now put this precomp into twixter as a foreground matte it helps it split up the pixels in z better.

Hi Phil, which camera and lenses exactly did you shoot this with, and what were the frame rates of the slow-motion shots? Am I right in saying that the final closing credits shot was slowed-down in post?

Hi Phil, which camera and lenses exactly was this shot with, and what were the frame rates of the slow-motion shots? And am I right in saying the final closing credits shot was slowed-down in post? Hope this posting works, because I tried posting a response last night, and it didn’t work or appear.

love your work… im just getting into film making i have a canon xh a1, letus extreme, and editing on CS3. which you inspired me to get after watching all your videos.I was wondering how you kept the quality of your footage as a mp4 format? I seen to loss alot of quality when encoding….can you help? i’d he so greatfull

Your work is fantastic. All footages are great. ALL.
But… I think sometimes the edit is… too slow. Maybe. In this case I think something is missing, the water, the impact, drops, people faces, (feelings), details, different angles and… maybe… a boat for you!
Sorry for the editor but this is what I think.
Anyway you’re really BMF!!!

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I love this music. Its that scene where Lee Van Cleef’s character faces off with his sister’s killer. A classic!!! But in a way, you made it to a showdown between the divers ,the drop ,and terrain.Nice one Mr.B.